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[Julian Edwards <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 24 May 2010 11:10:06 Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 23:56 -0400, Karl Fogel wrote:
> > I've heard (second hand) that some developers have found it very useful
> > to do their Launchpad development in VMs.  Then you can hose your
> > Postgres DBs with impunity, not worry about running rocketfuel-setup as
> > root, not worry about modifying /etc/hosts, etc.
> > 
> > Does anyone here have experience doing Launchpad development in a VM?
> > And if so, would you like to document it in the wiki, probably linked to
> > from https://dev.launchpad.net/Running?  Even just a brief mention of
> > what VM package you used, along with any special configuration, would
> > help -- at least it would remind people that this route is available.
> > 
> > (Note we already have https://dev.launchpad.net/Running/Schroot linked
> > from Running, offering similar benefits.  But IIUC going the full VM
> > route is somewhat different from just running in a chroot jail.)
> 
> I'm running two Lucid VM's in KVM to be able to run the testsuite in two
> branches sat the same time. There isn't much special about my setup
> (it's just a plain Lucid install in both VMs with Launchpad installed),
> but I can document it if you like.

I used to do the same thing - I used vmbuilder to make a basic server VM image 
and then ran rf-setup in it.  It's really very trivial and no different to 
standard LP development.

The reason I stopped doing this is because it makes the tests run very slowly 
compared to normal.